Cyborganism

That okay.

If you want to host just for yourself that’s okay. Just be careful about cybersecurity. You don’t want that box to become an easy entry point for hackers.

Having self hosted before the age of the cloud, on my own personal PC, I highly recommend to have a seperate box on a DMZ part of your router and only open the required ports. And use a super stable distro like Debian stable. You don’t want the bleeding edge on there as there could be bugs and vulnerabilities that haven’t been patched yet.

If you need to access it remotely, use SSH and disable root login and only allow logging in using SSH keys. Disable password login. And update often and back-up often!

Finally, keep all eye on the issues of the GitHub pages for your fediverse app so you can be aware of any important updates and patched or vulnerabilities. Shut down your service if there’s an important vulnerability that’s not fixed yet.

Big ups to @dansup@lemmy.world for his contributions and congrats to him being mentioned in the article.

Would you simply host for yourself or for others?

The issue I have with self-hosting is that the day something goes wrong, you lose your account along with all your posts. And if you host for others, they also lose all of theirs.

I know this isn’t the answer you were looking for. But I have the knowledge to self host and all. I have 17 years of experience as a Linux sysadmin, a software developer and now a DevOps specialist. And I honestly don’t want to bother because of the responsibility. However, there are organizations and non-profits who have the resources to host stable long-running instances. But they need money. So I donate to the instances I use instead.

But it you REALLY want to learn, start learning about Linux web servers, databases, networking, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes) and a good bit of cybersecurity. Hosting stuff on your laptop is a good start.

Well it sure benefited a lot of new tech projects and companies.

One thing we need to mention is funding.

While BlueSky may benefit from venture capital, free (as in beer) open source projects where user data is not commercially exploited for revenue do not have the same benefit. They rely a LOT on donations for running the infrastructure and for the hours and hard work that people are putting in.

Ah but it’s not there by default.

Wait… They don’t have that in Gnome? (I use KDE)

Love it! Rejean is going to be proud

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Thanks. Yeah after further considerations I went with Friendica. And yes I created my account on Friendica.world also. I think it has a better shot at surviving. But we never know. It takes one fuck-up and everything could go to shit.

I’ve been looking for a Facebook alternative. It was either Diaspora or Friendica.

Is Friendica more popular? What are some of the most popular/stable instances with the lowest chances of disappearing?

I don’t know but that’s what I did.

Yeah you can log-in to Pixelfed with Mastodon. I didn’t see the options for loops.video.

Then allow users from one platform to use their ID on the other.

In fact, using fediverse social networks made me realize how much I could use a single point of identification for all the services. Like a fediverse passport or SSO.

You don’t think Pixelfed should have reels?

I haven’t been able to upload any videos.

oooooOOOOOoooo!!! I didn’t even know about this. But yes.

Yeah I tried the beta before. I just got a new smartphone so I’m happy it’s available I the app store.

I hope they also add a feature for short video clips.

Imagine graduating in medecine and your employer respects you to be an expert at everything all at once that is related to the human body and being able to perform open heart and brain surgery and doing x-ray imaging and MRIs and being a gynecologist and an an optometrist and a pharmacist all at once.

That’s what being in IT is like. You’re expected to know how to program microcontrollers to mainframes to fucking VCRs and knowing every programming language ever created since electronic computers exist as well as networking and cloud technology and databases, etc. AND you have to be certified in all these things to prove you know them on top of your degree.